CROSSWORD

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Across

1 Stole... and squeezed e.g. split shot on to line! (7) 5 Poppers have flattened or concave __ (5)

8 Fred, MBE-holding anglerjournalist, died 2008 (6) 9 Young pilchards, good deadbaits (8)

10/20 Tool for removing tangle (*kept in cork) (4,6) 12 e.g. submerged branches that might catch your line/hook (5) 14 Toy flown in the wind – and bird of prey (4) 15 Micro-chenille ____ string for fly-tying (*largest G) (8)

18 A strip e.g. of toad’s eggs (6) 20 See 10ac. 21/30 Weight/force needed to snap line (8,6)

22 West Sussex river... in broad urbanisation (4)

24 Like non-hollow end of a ferrule (*idols) (5)

26 Gently touches small flat fishes! (4)

28 Unhook fish e.g. with T-bar (8)

30 See 21ac.

32 Understand ... part of gadget I try (3,2)

33 e.g. carrageen or kelp (7)

Down

1 Flood ___, low-lying land subject to flooding (5) 2 Nothing... in chenille (3) 3 In short, county location of Tring reservoir (5) 4 e.g. fin rot (*seaside) (7) 5 Not either... in Manorbier (3) 6 See 16dn.

7 Maize kernels used as bait (9) 11 Stalk a fish, say (5) 13 Ocean swell (5)

16/6 Tool for twisting pike traces (*slick twig didn’t) (9,5) 17 Experts, like Dean Macey and Adam Rooney (5) 19 Cooked in an oven (5) 21 e.g. plumbs or sinkers (7) 23 A ‘reversed’ hook is offset to the ___ : – correct! (5) 25 River of Russia/Ukraine (*Andes) (5)

27 Term for hooks without eyes or spade ends (5)

29 Water vole, or water __ (3) 31 E. Sussex town on River Rother – in estuary, Essex! (3)